Alternately, one could say that the US consumer is a sucker, paying full pop for drugs when practically every other country in the world has some system of price controls. The drug companies don’t mind - they make back all their R&D dollars with exorbitant prices in the US, and then make decent money selling them in the rest of the world. My natural inclination is to say that price controls like we have in Canada are not a good idea (although they seem to pay off for us), but to not have them when practically everyone else does, yeah, I’d have to say that makes you a bunch of suckers on this deal.
Tell us all about all those innovative new drugs the Canadian pharmaceutical industry brings to the world. The Canadians, like so many other socialists, are getting a free ride thanks to the U.S.
That the ends justify the means in some people's minds, on a conservative forum, is baffling.